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The President's aides were ex- hausted, battle-weary, shell-shocked, and, as one of them put it, nearly fit for psychoneurotic discharge. They had lived with this thing for more than a year. Some felt that such was the dis- traction at the "'Thite House that it had cost the nation a year-in dealing with its problems, its allies, its adversaries It was, says one, more an unconSCIOUS perception that grew, and worked on these exhausted people. So the last tape was only the precipitating event; there were people in the White House who seemed to grasp It as eagerly as did the Republicans on Capitol Hill, and who did what they could to persuade the President that he must give up hIS of- fice At lunch in the White House Ex- ecutive Dining Room on the day of the Supreme Court decision, Dean Burch, Buzhardt, William Timmons, who is in charge of congressional liaison, and Leonard Garment, another Pres- idential advisel, discussed whether the President should resign. All of them thought so, but Garment had some reservations-considered that there was something to be said for seeing the processes through Only Buzhardt had heard the June 23rd tape, and the others took notice when Buzhardt, the last to speak, said quietly, "He should resign." In California, Haig was trying to get through to the President about the degree of the.. trouble he was in. And then there followed the showing of the transcript of the June 23 rd tape to Wiggins by St. Clair and Haig, and telling Griffin and Rhodes about new evidence. During the last week, there was, in fact, a movement within the \Vhite House to get the President out. The President's declaration at the l.ISt Cabinet meeting that he would not re- sign, the importunings of his family that he not resign, even the call by Rabbi Korff for the country to raIl) round the President worried those who thought he must go. Bryce Harlow, a former \Vhite House counsellor and now a lobbyist for Procter & Gamble, went to work. Harlow made cans to the Hill We have learned of some of the calls these various people were mak- ing to the Hill, but there were manv- many of them redundant. Key Republi- cans-Goldwater, Tower-were got OCTOBER 2, 8. I 974- in touch with And it was seen to it that MississIppi Democratic Senator John Stennis-"J udge Stennis," who was to listen to the tapes last fall, and who is one of the most influential men on Capitol HilJ-conveyed word to the President about the depth of his trouble. Therefore the statements bv key Republicans. Therefore the dele- gation to the ,,\lhite House. Therefore the aborting of the processes. Inevi- tably, the anxious conversations and meetings wilI come out in multiple ver- sions, told from the perspectIve, and to the ad vantage, of the various par- ticipants-this will he the "Rashomon" to end "Rashomon"s-but the show was over before they began. . T HE speech. During the day, re- searchers have found that it was six years ago tonight that Nixon made his acceptance speech at the Mitmi Beach convention. It is hard to believe that this is the last speech Richard Nixon wilI make as P residen t Yet the re he is.. sitting In that familiar scene, at the fcl- miliar desk, one flag in hIs lapel, one by his side, holding white sheets of paper. Just as when he talked about the econ- omy, or the war. Johnson stunned us when he looked up from his white paper and said that he would not run for reëlection. Nixon's speech wIlJ not stun us. It is just there. He looks bad- the face more creased and drawn He is wearing a dark sUIt, a dark tie, tnd a white shirt. He begins by telling us that this is the thirty-seventh tiIne he has spoken to us from that office, a)1d we recalJ that he is our thirq -seventh President. He gets down to it quickly. He says that he will not continue "to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me," because it has "become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress to justify continuing that effort." A euphemism, but so be it. Yet this makes it sound as if the PresIdent were re- signing for the very reason that he in- sisted so often he would not resign for; he is talking as if we had a parliamen- tar} syst'em. Perhaps, in extremis, we do. He sa, s he has concluded that "because of the "VVatergate matter I Inight not have the support of the Con- gress that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions" he has to make. "1 have never been a quitter," he says. "To leave office be- fore my term is completed IS ahhorrent to every instinct in my body," he says, and one believes him. Yet, he says, to continue his fight "would almost to- tally absorb the time and attention of